tena ✦ even if the sky does fall

[Tena M.]

Tena Moonspinner —
Quiet.  Everything felt awfully quiet.  Despite the blood on the breeze.  It felt like something might be different now.  The ever-changing waters.  A tension in the air.  Apprehension.  For something other than the inevitable battle. 

Honestly, the petite demdji only wanted what was best for Elysium.  Sometimes it felt like a ghost town.  Not today.  Today it felt like she was walking on a tight rope.  Voices on the wind, murmurs of an assembly but she had not called one.  So the story repeated itself... And what did that mean for her?

Tena paced the length of her little house.  Close to the water, but not quite out there.  She still couldn't swim after all.  Small.  With a little kitchen.  A place to sleep close to the windows.  Overgrown plants on the outside.  Perfect.  Almost.  Even when the kettle boiled over a tiny fire, the smell of spices spreading throughout the building... Nothing ever truly felt like a perfect home, but she was never going to get something better than this, would she?

The petite sand cat thought once of inviting Ebra to live in the same building.  Maybe her brother would change the feeling in her chest.  But there was not a lot of space and she had yet found the words.  Ebra had likely found a place of their own by now anyway and she felt she'd be intruding to pull them away from it.

So long as I keep one foot in the sand and one here... Someone was knocking on the door, tapping on the wood.  Her ears perked, bright blue eyes blinking.  She glanced once at the kettle, still heating the Tzai she had started to make.  Plenty of time.  Curious, she padded up to the door and pushed it open to reveal a certain scruffy Jedi.  Why am I not surprised?

"Lavi," she shuffled back some to grant him room.  "Sure." Had he ever come over before?  Tena frowned lightly as she would wait for him to enter, then closed the door once again.  She supposed he had not, because she never invited anyone over.  "What's up? I heard Rin had called an assembly," her tone grows flat quickly, betraying her conflicting emotions all too soon.

Rin had not even been a full Elysite last she checked.  Determined to simply remain and offer them her services in gratitude for their hospitality.  Tena didn't know why but she had always understood the wariness of full commitment so she had never pushed.

Quietly, she returned to the little kitchen, studying the fire under the kettle.  "It must've been important." A bare mutter.
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